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adam · 1 year ago

Thanks a bunch
MacPro user · 5 months ago

Holding the Option key while booting will display all bootable drives connected to the machine. This is for intel based macs. In OSX, you can clone backups and boot to a drive if you have say a laptop hard drive failure. A mac tech support person told me superduper! is a good app for making these bootable clones as a backup strategy. Works great and has saved me more than once while I waited for the best time for getting my crashed drive replaced.
flattdobbs · 3 months ago

Actually the Option key at boot time has been around since at least 10.2 (I didn't use 10.1 so I'm not sure on that) so it works with PPC machines and as far as I know it is not hardware related at all but an OS thing.
Also I would recommend Carbon Copy Cloner for duplicating drives (bootable or otherwise). Mike Bombich is awesome with much detailed advice for cloning and network booting etc.... I've never used SuperDuper! but I think that Mike B really knows his stuff, it's freeware with a suggested donation but not necessary for the app to work. Check out his website. (I'm not affiliated at all just a fan)